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Leafy Autumn Ride

Yesterday's ride in to work.

First it was acorn season. Then it was walnut season. Now it's leaf season. No end of crap on the road to try to avoid slipping on.

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Originally Posted by ItsJustMe (Post 19153682)

First it was acorn season. Then it was walnut season. Now it's leaf season. No end of crap on the road to try to avoid slipping on.

...or masking an unseen pothole.

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(c) The Boston Globe Nov 15, 2009

...on Monday, during a ride to Arlington, Robert Zeeb crashed his bicycle along Route 2. He died from his injuries the following day.

Witnesses told State Police that Zeeb crashed along the westbound side of Route 2, east of Exit 60, at 10:22 a.m. -not far from the Alewife T station. A witness told police that it appeared as if Zeeb's bicycle struck a hole for an electrical box in the ground and that no other vehicles were involved in the accident.

Zeeb's family is upset the hole wasn't covered and is looking for answers. "I'm going to need to talk to them to see why that [cover] wasn't there," Noel Zeeb said yesterday.

One witness told State Police the hole was filled with leaves and its cover was several feet away, said David Procopio, a State Police spokesman...

There is a short and very steep climb on my way to work. Today my rear wheel slipped a little on the way up. Well I guess that's better than my front wheel slipping on the way down.

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Originally Posted by ItsJustMe (Post 19153682)

First it was acorn season. Then it was walnut season. Now it's leaf season. No end of crap on the road to try to avoid slipping on.

Last week I squeezed the brakes to stop at an intersection and skidded on a peach pit. What are the odds?

Last year was the first fall with the new bike so I posed it in a pile of leaves. Bad idea. With the tight fender gaps it collected a bushel of leaves up in there and took me 10 minutes to get them all out. The usual cure, rolling backwards didn't help.

I don't know. I kind of LIKE the sound of my tires crushing those leaves and shooting acorns all over the place. It's this time of year, when the bike has got one wheel in the basement, that makes me appreciate Spring, Summer, and Fall.

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Originally Posted by Papa Tom (Post 19154949)

I kind of LIKE the sound of my tires crushing those leaves and shooting acorns all over the place.

Then get some studded snow/ice tires. You will LOVE the sound of crunching ice!